10 Jan
CPP Investments
Toronto
Job Description
Office of the Chief Investment Officer (OCIO)
The Office of the Chief Investment Officer (“OCIO”) mandate is to enable the Chief Investment Officer (“CIO”) by providing the CIO with the necessary resources and expertise to perform the CIO’s accountabilities. OCIO consists of two groups: Investment Portfolio Management and Integrated Strategies.
Investment Portfolio Management (IPM)
The Investment Portfolio Management (“IPM”) group works on behalf of the CIO to maximize the returns of the Investment Portfolios at the targeted level of risk through providing dedicated support for each CIO-approved investment strategy, active portfolio design, investment signals, performance attribution,
investment decision analysis and communications.
We manage our portfolio of active strategies (“Active Portfolio”) through which internal or external specialists can deliver incremental value-add returns through investment selection. Annually, the CIO reviews the mandate and performance of each investment strategy to refresh the Fund’s capital allocations.
Position Description:
We look for candidates that have a strong track record of academic success while balancing extracurricular activities, a strong skill set in research, financial modeling, valuation, and analytics, as well as good communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills. In addition, the most successful candidates often combine energy, enthusiasm, and intellectual curiosity, with demonstrated interest in investing.
The candidate will join the Investment Portfolio Management Group’s – Active Portfolio Design team. As part of this dynamic team,
you will work closely with the other teams within IPM as well as the broader Total Fund Management department to advance our mission maximize the risk-adjusted total Fund returns through support to the CIO on key aspects of Strategic Asset Allocation and evaluation of the portfolio.
Role-specific Accountabilities:
- Conduct research on asset class industry trends, asset management capabilities and key capital market assumptions. This may include research such as examining the quality of alpha defined by mean, variance and covariance – across various investment strategies under different macroeconomic environments and research to explore the relationship between stock and bond correlations under different macroeconomic environments characterized by variations in factors such as economic growth and inflation.
- Develop solutions to effectively deliver analysis and research
- Support the group with data exploration, financial modeling, portfolio analysis, and portfolio construction decision making around private and public asset classes and emerging portfolio matters
- Support IPM by working closely with the asset class teams to identify value-add opportunities and initiatives that span multiple asset classes in order to improve recommendations and decision-making processes
- Assist in the identification of Active Portfolio management improvements, including active monitoring of performance, capital deployments and emerging portfolio matters in partnership with departments such as Performance, Reporting, and Analytics, Investment Operations, and the Risk & Business Intelligence
- Design and author key documents with guidance (committee memos,
senior management and board updates etc.)
- Develop oral and written presentations on IPM activities
- Maintain and update team coordination tools (i.e., project pipeline, objectives tracking)
- Support other projects as needed
- Ensure that portfolio decision-makers receive timely and accurate portfolio information
- Provide forward-looking analysis and commentary on portfolio
- Other duties as required
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